Apple users deserve a better Smart Home

a smart home is now a dumb home, because one man's software is another man's nightmare.

Home Assistant is the only Smart Home app that’s worth it

4:33 "No, you're Jake!" im disappointed to announce that got me.

I don't know what these companies need to do differently, but matter NEEDS to be quick and painless to setup to get normal people on board with buying smart home things, and all these connectivity errors and stuff not working despite doing everything the app is asking is just not cutting it. I dream of a future where you can have a house that does everything around you for you, and we have the technology to do that already, but there's way too much mucking about trying to get it working right now.

Home Assistant is the GOAT.

Seeing videos like this reinforces my decision to never deal with smart home garbage ever.

Home Assistant reigns supreme.

You should probably talk about Homebridge, which can be run on any computer even a Raspberry PI.  It allows a lot of devices not compatible with Homekit to work with Homekit with plugins. For example, my Gree heat pump/AC units have their plugin in there, so they can now be controlled by Apple Home. It even allows you to create "dummy switches" to facilitate automation implementation (especially with shortcuts) with the "Homebridge Plugin Command Dev". For example, you could create a dummy switch called "Night Time" switch that would turn on at sunset and turn off at sunrise. You can even specify a terminal-based command to execute when the switch toggles on or off, so if you want to call an API for something when that happens, you can!

the subtle pan of the camera upwards after Johnathan walked into the frame was everything ❤😂

The biggest problem with smart home is that companies want me to upgrade my light switches and cameras and light bulbs and whatever else I have every 3-5 years like a smart phone. No, just no! Even if their cloud services do stay online beyond the end of their security updates, I now have an ultra insecure network connected time bomb on my network. Some of us have enough know-how to VLAN the stuff, but the average smart home user shouldn’t need to be CCNA certified to ensure their smart home devices aren’t dangerous to their digital safety.

That intro just made me want my glass and skeuomorphic buttons back. PLEASE can we get amazing looking UIs again on these OLED bezelless displays?? I miss enjoying using my technology instead of “putting up with it”.

*correct me if I’m wrong. The script states that you “need a thread router for matter”. That is incorrect, you need a thread border router for thread devices, but many matter devices still communicate via wifi.

Or just get home assistant and use that to make stuff work.

If you’re at the point where Jake is, start looking into home assistant. Everything works with home assistant and your matter devices are supported! Great community too

and this is why homebridge/home assistant are so nice

Threads networking is based on IPv6 so its always required for anything using Threads

12:13 Yeah, in this case what you want is a presence sensor rather than a motion sensor.

home assistant -> homekit bridge problem solved. Homekit is an excellent front end for home assistant

IPv6 is not new (draft standard in 1998), it’s just not frequently used because 255 devices was considered enough and network engineers found ways around it. Matter (and specifically Thread) was built to be as future proof as possible, supporting more than 255 devices on a network, so it uses IPv6 instead of IPv4 to address (refer to) devices in the network Matter over WiFi should also not require IPv6… That’s a vendor laziness issue

Thank you for not trying to gaslight me into pretending that IPv6 isn't a nightmare. Also, nice touch with the iOS 6 UI elements in the beginning. Also also, I hate all of this so-called 'smart' tech. Just give me a nice internal web server for configuration any day of the week.